Variety shows, music hall, cabaret books

258 books were found.

Comedy by the Numbers

Comedy by the Numbers

Author: Eric Hoffman (Author) ,  Gary Rudoren (Author)
ISBN: 9781932416756
Format: Paperback
$18.99

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Charlotte Greenwood: The Life and Career of the Comic Star of Vaudeville, Radio and Film

Charlotte Greenwood: The Life and Career of the Comic...

Author: Grant Hayter-Menzies
ISBN: 9780786429950
Format: Paperback
$118.80

"Charlotte Greenwood was unfashionably tall at 5'10"""". Her early aspirations to become a great dramatic actress...  Read More >>

Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho

Author: Caroline Tiger
ISBN: 9780791092750
Format: Hardback
$92.40

"From her first moment onstage as a teenager with her high school improv group, Margaret Cho knew that performing...  Read More >>

A Prairie Home Companion: Never Better

A Prairie Home Companion: Never Better

Author: Garrison Keillor
ISBN: 9781598870947
Format: Audio
$65.87

Includes tales that takes us to 'the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve,' where 'the women...  Read More >>

Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture

Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture...

Author: Linda G. Tucker
ISBN: 9781578069064
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Examines popular culture's reliance on long-standing stereotypes of black men as animalistic, hypersexual, dangerous...  Read More >>

Ragged but Right: "Black Traveling Shows, """"Coon Songs,"""" and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz"

Ragged but Right: "Black Traveling Shows, """"Coon Songs,""""...

Author: Lynn Abbott ,  Doug Seroff
ISBN: 9781578069019
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Investigates black musical comedy productions, sideshow bands, and itinerant tented minstrel shows. Ragtime history...  Read More >>

No Applause -Just Throw the Money

No Applause -Just Throw the Money

Author: S.D. Trav
ISBN: 9780865479586
Format: Paperback
$23.00

From 1881 to 1932, vaudeville was at the heart of show business in the States. This book chronicles vaudeville's...  Read More >>

Pretty Things: The Last Generation Of American Burlesque Queens

Pretty Things: The Last Generation Of American Burlesque...

Author: Liz Goldwyn
ISBN: 9780060889449
Format: Hardback
$118.67

Invites us to step back into an era when the hourglass figure was in vogue and striptease was a true art form. This...  Read More >>

Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers

Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety...

Author: Frank Cullen
ISBN: 9780415938532
Format: Mixed media product
$530.00

Provides information on the history of vaudeville, performance art, burlesque, revue, and comic opera. This work...  Read More >>

Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America

Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America...

Author: Stephen E. Kercher
ISBN: 9780226431642
Format: Hardback
$79.95

Provides a comprehensive look at the satiric humor that flourished in the United States during the 1950s and early...  Read More >>

Noise Orders: Jazz, Improvision, and Architecture

Noise Orders: Jazz, Improvision, and Architecture

Author: David S. Brown
ISBN: 9780816643516
Format: Paperback
$59.40

David Brown locates jazz music within the broad aesthetic, political, and theoretical upheavals of our time, asserting...  Read More >>

Past Present and Future

Past Present and Future

Author: Anne Knight
ISBN: 9781905993277
Format: Paperback
$12.94

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Common As Muck!: The Autobiography of Roy 'Chubby' Brown

Common As Muck!: The Autobiography of Roy 'Chubby' Brown...

Author: Roy Chubby Brown ,  Roy Chubby Brown
ISBN: 9781405501620
Format: Audio
$65.87

The frank, funny and astonishing story of Roy 'Chubby' Brown, one of the UK's most popular (and filthiest!) comedians...  Read More >>

Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers

Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits...

Author: A. Wertheim
ISBN: 9781403968265
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This book maps the intriguing story about how the tycoons of the two most powerful circuits, Keith-Albee in the...  Read More >>

Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording

Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar...

Author: Tim Anderson
ISBN: 9780816645183
Format: Paperback
$44.95

Presents a social and cultural history of the contentious, diverse, and experimental culture of musical production...  Read More >>

Women Vaudeville Stars: Eighty Biographical Profiles

Women Vaudeville Stars: Eighty Biographical Profiles...

Author: Armond Fields
ISBN: 9780786425839
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Tells the stories of 80 women who were among the top vaudeville acts in the late 19th century and early 20th century....  Read More >>

Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America

Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century...

Author: Karen Sotiropoulos
ISBN: 9780674019409
Format: Hardback
$122.76

The story of how African Americans entered the stage door and transformed popular culture is a largely untold story....  Read More >>

Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show

Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show

Author: Rachel Shteir (Head of Dramaturgy, The Theatre School, Head of Dramaturgy, The Theatre School, DePaul University)
ISBN: 9780195300765
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Talks about the Golden Age of striptease, the years between the Jazz Age and the Sexual Revolution, when strippers...  Read More >>

Noise Orders: Jazz, Improvisation, And Architecture

Noise Orders: Jazz, Improvisation, And Architecture...

Author: David S. Brown
ISBN: 9780816643509
Format: Hardback
$114.00

David Brown locates jazz music within the broad aesthetic, political, and theoretical upheavals of our time, asserting...  Read More >>

Flesh for Fantasy: Producing and Consuming Exotic Dance

Flesh for Fantasy: Producing and Consuming Exotic Dance...

Author: Katherine Frank ,  Danielle Egan
ISBN: 9781560257219
Format: Paperback
$27.95

"A new anthology of essays from the editor of Jane Sexes It Up-exploring the complexities of the world of exotic...  Read More >>

Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording

Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar...

Author: Tim Anderson
ISBN: 9780816645176
Format: Hardback
$131.00

Presents a social and cultural history of the contentious, diverse, and experimental culture of musical production...  Read More >>

British Music Hall: An Illustrated History

British Music Hall: An Illustrated History

Author: Richard Anthony Baker ,  Roy Hudd, OBE
ISBN: 9780750936859
Format: Paperback
$55.00

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Stars in Battledress: The Story of Service Entertainers in World War II

Stars in Battledress: The Story of Service Entertainers...

Author: Bill Pertwee
ISBN: 9780954526757
Format: Paperback
$20.67

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